Splunk Dashboard Developer

Job ID: 2615817

Location: Beltsville, MD, US

Date Posted: 2026-08-18

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Database Admin

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_HYBRID

Description

Vanguard is seeking a skilled Splunk Dashboard Developer to design, develop, and maintain dashboards that provide actionable insights from Department-level operational data. The developer will work closely with NT leadership and operators to translate mission requirements into real-time, scalable, and visually intuitive dashboards.

This role is considered hybrid and may require onsite work in Springfield, VA and Beltsville, MD.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain dashboards natively within Splunk using SPL (Search Processing Language) and Dashboard Studio / Simple XML.
• Optimize dashboards for performance, scalability, and usability with large data sets.
• Collaborate with NT leadership, engineers, operators, and stakeholders to ensure dashboards meet operational and mission requirements.
• Assist in data modeling, reporting, and access control configuration for secure and effective information sharing.
• Support documentation and training for dashboard users.

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; may accept additional experience in lieu of degree.
• Strong experience with Splunk dashboard development and SPL query language.
• Proven ability to design and optimize Splunk dashboards for large, complex datasets.
• Experience translating operational requirements into actionable visualizations.
• Familiarity with collaborative tools for sharing dashboards across teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Required Clearance:

• ship.
• Active secret clearance with the ability to obtain top secret.

Preferred:

• Experience in a government environment.
• Familiarity with IT-related (specifically network) data and metrics.
• Familiarity with IT operations, monitoring, or ticketing platforms such as ServiceNow.
• Ability to use APIs to pull data from Splunk for custom reporting or integrations.
• Some Power BI experience for cases where Splunk dashboards may not meet all visualization needs.
• Security clearance or ability to obtain one.

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


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